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Establishing Business Ecosystems for Smart Living services: A case study on how to improve the robustness of the underlying networked Business Model
No full textSmart Living falls under the broader rubric of Internet of Things (IoT) and is described as a residence with connected technologies that are able to anticipate and respond to occupants’ emotional, rational, social, economic, and physical needs. Because Smart Living services have a networked nature, collaboration between actors in the business environment is essential. However, Smart Living services have hardly ever been realized on a large scale, and the various features are often not integrated. From a strategical viewpoint, this is caused by a lack of alignment between service providers. Consequently, the robustness of the underlying networked Business Model is often limited. This research presents a process framework which serves as a guideline for establishing a Business Ecosystem for Smart Living services. Central to this framework is an approach to analyze interactor relationships in a dynamic model. This model reveals alignment, misalignments and conflicts in actors’ interdependencies and interactions. To resolve the identified misalignments and conflicts, activities can be devised to adapt the underlying networked Business Model with the objective of improving its robustness
Establishing a Durable Environment for Digital Financial Services: Eliciting Design Principles for the Financial Ecosystem to Develop Robust APIs for Open Banking
No full textThe banking industry is changing rapidly as financial services are becoming more digital every day. This research provides a set of Robust Design Principles that are able to guide the development of APIs for Open Banking. Interested organizations are able to adopt these principles to jointly establish a robust technical infrastructure and contribute to a durable financial ecosystem. Notably, these design principles are only able to be formulated after careful analysis of the system they are designed for. Thus, the changing financial ecosystem is explicated by clarifying the contextual aspect, as well as the technical aspect of the environment. Furthermore, a future prospect of the financial ecosystem is given to determine the performance of the technical infrastructure that allows for Open Banking.Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM
How "novel" can business model innovations be?: Examining the effect of institutionalism towards business model innovation
No full textThe rise of ICT and the ever increasing competitiveness in industries have pushed firms to increase their propensity in changing and innovating their activities. As this need for firms to change constantly increases, the study of business model innovation have taken the spotlight. There exist a need for the knowledge stream to grow and understand the mechanisms surrounding the process, as firms in business strive to do better business model innovation and gain a sustainable competitive advantage. The constant strive for innovativeness in doing business model innovation seems to be limitless, yet according to various research on institutional theory, there is a limit in how innovative or distinctive a firm can be to not be shunned by its environment (suppliers, competitors, customers, policy-makers). More specifically, past research have proposed that innovativeness correlates positively with performance. Yet, neo-institutionalism postulates that there is a limit where innovativeness impacts positively to firms and its processes, before being penalized for being too different. This research empirically observes how the tensions between innovativeness from business model innovation and conformity from institutionalism impacts the business model innovation process in firms. Furthermore, how does insitutionalism ultimately affect firm performance? The results of this research shows a U-shaped relationship between institutionalism and business model innovation. The observed results also show that institutionalism's effect towards firm performance is mediated partially by business model innovation. The results of this research also support past observation that business model innovation does correlate positively with firm performance.Management of Technology (MoT
Permanent Organisation of the Olympic Games in Greece: Infrastructure and Technology Management Issues
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Evaluating the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for he Chemical Industry: An Empirical Study
No full textThis research evaluates the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for the chemical sector across the globe. It does so by creating a regression model which incorporates five constructs (market potential, infrastructure, factor cost, governance factors and a measure of environmental stringency) to explain the variance of foreign direct investment (FDI) across countries specified for the chemical sector. The results are by no means unequivocally for or against a confirmation of the pollution haven hypothesis, but the evidence suggests a negative effect of the measure of environmental stringency when FDI is specified further to only the manufacture of chemical products and sampled by averaging as much annual FDI data as the dataset includes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The value of the experience curve in a societal cost-benefit analysis
No full textCurrent literature on the usage of the experience curve in a societal cost-benefit analysis is lacking. It is unclear how the experience curve should be used in a societal cost benefit analysis and how large the effect or added value is. This thesis uses a case study to analyses effects of the experience curve on a societal cost benefit analysis and identifies any limitations or challenges
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
The impact of blockchain technology on insurance business models: Stress testing the insurers' business models using the STOF Model
No full textAs the insurance industry engages in numerous processes which are characterized by the exchange of data which is updated by multiple parties; a blockchain, as a single source of truth, has the potential to increase efficiency and reduce the complexity of these processes. However, the complexity, uncertainty, transforming potential and barriers to adoption associated with blockchain technology make it hard to assess its impact on insurers. Therefore, this research aims to help insurance industry business decision makers to anticipate the impact of blockchain technology on their business models, by finding the most important parts of the business model that need to be addressed. It does so by means of expert interviews and a business model stress test workshop. In this workshop, experts assess the impact of uncertain future developments on an insurance reference business model which is described using the STOF business model ontology.It has been found that currently, enterprise-grade blockchain solutions that meet the requirements of the insurance industry regarding governance, privacy, scalability, identity and access management, security and reliability are not available. Besides no concrete insurance use cases that will actually realize benefits have been found. Therefore, it is hard to justify investments that are specifically targeted at blockchain technology. However, there are two investments insurers should make that are not specifically targeted at blockchain technology, but will prepare insurers for technological innovation, whether blockchain will reach maturity in the near future or not. The first and most important investment is related to standardization. The workshops led to the insight that the most crucial uncertainty outcome is the strength of cooperation. The standardization of data formats and field descriptions is a prerequisite for this cooperation. Insurers just started this standardization in order to facilitate data exchange with other insurers. Insurers should continue their standardization efforts, as it will facilitate data exchange in the insurance value chain and being compliant with GDPR, regardless whether blockchain will be implemented. The second investment is related to rationalization, it will enable insurers to respond more quickly to changes in IT and be compliant with regulation. Blockchain can be a driver for thinking about how systems can be developed to support decentralization, a division of roles and agility, however, the rationalization process should not be targeted to a specific blockchain platform, as it is hard to choose from the scattered field of blockchain platforms.Management of Technology (MoT
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